M83 - The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

[Petergoodhew]

The Southern Pinwheel captured on my APM TMB in Spain.

I saw this pretty, and lesser-known, galaxy in an article in the May issue of Astronomy Now magazine and wanted to have a try at it.  However being a southern hemisphere target it's virtually impossible to capture from London but just about reachable for a short period each night from Spain.

14h15m hours total integration (27x900s luminance, 10x600s for each RGB channel, 8x1200s Ha)

 

 

[Sunshine]

Love it! very nicely defined dust lanes and fuzzies!

[ollypenrice]

A very fine image and not an object I knew at all well. There's a wonderful sense of movement in the way the spiral arms are wound.

More proof of the power of a large refractor, too. What wonderful things they are!

Olly

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Beautiful image. That was one of the last Messiers I spotted. Very hard with 15x70 bins even from down-under where it was right overhead. The very last two Messiers I spotted were M72 and M73, from Olly's place. Both very easy with his 20" Dobson (Sir Isaac)

[Barry-Wilson]

Ooh, well done Peter.

I see you are fairing very well indeed.  This is a very tricky target and you've a very fine image.  Super job.

[Rodd]

I wish this was visible in the north.  Nice image.

Rodd

[Atreta]

On 24/05/2018 at 19:48, Petergoodhew said:

The Southern Pinwheel captured on my APM TMB in Spain.

I saw this pretty, and lesser-known, galaxy in an article in the May issue of Astronomy Now magazine and wanted to have a try at it.  However being a southern hemisphere target it's virtually impossible to capture from London but just about reachable for a short period each night from Spain.

14h15m hours total integration (27x900s luminance, 10x600s for each RGB channel, 8x1200s Ha)

 

 

Beautiful image , the southern pinwheel has been on my to-do list for a time but skies aren't friendly this year and the only time i could try it was only a few frames. 

Congrats.